December 3, 2001

When President George W. Bush debated former Vice President Al Gore on national television last year, he promised his foreign policy would avoid nation building – constructing a government with people who may or may not want assistance. Two months following the opening of U.S.-led strikes against the Taliban in Afghanistan, it appears he has […]

GW medical researchers mapped a new gene called BP1 last month that has been linked to leukemia and may contribute to breast cancer. The findings, published in the science journal Gene, will lead to further research and possible long-term treatments, University medical staff members said. If extra BP1 is proven to cause breast cancer, doctors […]

As the final Taliban-controlled city of Kandahar comes under assault by Afghan rebels and U.S. ground troops, experts are calling the war a success and urging the Bush administration to maintain the coalition. “So far (the war) has gone more successfully than anyone dared hope in terms of the ease with which the Northern Alliance […]

GW accidentally violated its exclusive beverage contract with Coca-Cola for almost a year before Essentials Market in Mitchell Hall stopped selling Red Bull energy drink last month. Assistant Director of Auxiliary Services Lyle Vaughan said he was unaware of the contract breach, and that an employee without the authority to make sales decisions must have […]

Most knew after a friend or co-worker told them to turn on the television. Some happened to be watching in time to see the second strike. GW President Stephen Joel Trachtenberg found out when he heard the bang. As the blinds lifted to reveal the blaze from the angled building, Trachtenberg said the mood of […]

Students to hold U.S.-Israel Solidarity Rally In response to the suicide terrorist attacks in Israel over the weekend, the GW Student Alliance for Israel and the Jewish Student Association will hold a U.S.-Israel Solidarity Rally on Kogan Plaza Monday at 8 p.m. “We are looking to remember the victims of the attacks and show GW’s […]

Before the country opened its eyes in shock at the catastrophe that unfolded the morning of Sept. 11, the nation had already lost more than 300 citizens from terrorist attacks in just the last decade. Before news networks replayed the coordinated assaults on D.C. and New York City, Osama bin Laden’s al Qaeda network had […]

A sticker on the door to room 402 in Monroe Hall reads, “It will be a great day when our schools get all the money they need and the Air Force has to hold a bake sale to buy a bomber.” “Sanctions kill! 1,000,000 dead. Let Iraq live,” another sticker reads. The office door belongs […]

Andrew Stergiopoulos (’00) Stergiopoulos, 23, the youngest GW alumnus to lose his life in the tragedy graduated with a bachelor’s degree in business administration. Stergiopoulos worked for Cantor Fitzgerald, a company based in New York that has “strong ties” to GW, business school Dean Susan Phillips said in a letter to the community. He worked […]